noun · feminine
posias
Strong’sG4213
drink
stem posi-3 times in the New Testamentin 3 of 27 books2 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
πόσις, -εως, ἡ
(< πίνω), [in LXX: Da, LXX TH 1:10 (מִשְׁתֶּה)*;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4213 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidpos'-is
a drinking (the act), i.e. (concretely) a draught
Fromfrom the alternate of G4095;
King Jamesdrink.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
Attic dialect εως, ; dative πόσει, Ionic dialect πόσι Refs 5th c.BC+: (πίνω):— drinking, drink, beverage, πόσιος καὶ ἐδητύος ἐζ ἔρον ἕντο Refs 8th c.BC+; carousal, Refs 7th c.BC+; συγγίνεσθαι ἐς πόσιν to meet for a carousal, Refs 5th c.BC+over their cups, Refs 5th c.BC+
2 draught, αἷμα πίεται τρίτην πόσιν Refs 5th c.BC+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | posias2×πόσις | posiais |
| object accusative | posian | posiain |
| direct address vocative | posiar | posiair |
| of, belonging to genitive | posiau | posiaiu |
| to, for dative | posia1×πόσει | posiai |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
posia is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
3 occurrences, every one of them listed
posias“drink”subjectnominative singular2×
John 6:55… kai tem haimem mu alēthas atō posias.… food, and My blood is real drink.
Romans 14:17… tas basileias tou theou brōsias kai posias, alla dikaiosunas kai eirēnas kai charas …… not a matter of eating and drinking, but of righteousness, peace, and joy …
posia“drink”to, fordative singular1×
Colossians 2:16… vin krinatōr en brōsia ē en posia ē en mere heortau ē noumēniau …… you by what you eat or drink, or with regard to a feast …